`The Hindus’ is controversial, courageous

ByKaren Long | January 14, 2010

(RNS) In English, a widow burned alive on the funeral pyre of her dead husband is called a “suttee.” In Sanskrit, she is a “sati” or “good woman.” All over India are sati stones that commemorate these deaths, the earliest dated definitively to the year 510. “These women were not a homogenous group of mindless […]